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Leander hearing this, admired much at it, and found a little heaviness on his mind, however he resolved to keep his word. About sunset a mighty tempest arose, the sea swelled in terror, and all seemed a sudden midnight, when as going towards the vessel he perceived it had broke its cable, and had driven out to sea with the men on board it: he hailed them as loud as he could, but they stood away before the wind, and could not get back: Then he ran about the shore to seek another vessel, but could find none: so that seeing a light in Hero's turret, by which he knew she expected him, he resolved to run any hazard rather than break his word, and so stripping himself to his shirt, and hiding his cloaths in the rock, be leaped into the sea, in hopes to overtake the vessel, or find it at the place appointed, and so floated on the waves till he